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"Desperate Housewives" takes ratings hit |
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| LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - ABC's "Desperate Housewives" fell to a record low rating for an original episode as the suburban soap returned to the air on Sunday after being sidelined for more than three months by the writers strike. The show drew 16 million viewers, down about 15 percent from its season average of 18.9 million viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research. It was still enough to win the 9 p.m. hour by a wide margin, and give ABC the nightly honors with 10.5 million viewers. "Housewives" was hurt by the absence of "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" as a lead-in. Instead, ABC moved the fast-fading "Oprah's Big Give" to the 8 p.m. slot (8.9 million viewers vs. a season average of 11.5 million).
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Posted by worlddown on Tuesday, April 15 @ 14:32:52 MST (131 reads)
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Pete Wentz denies Ashlee Simpson is pregnant |
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| LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rocker Pete Wentz on Monday denied that his fiancee, pop star Ashlee Simpson, is pregnant as reported in celebrity magazines days after they announced their engagement, according to a story on MTV.com. Earlier in the day, Us and OK! magazines published stories on their Web sites claiming Simpson was pregnant. OK! went so far as to say the baby was due in October. But Wentz, the bassist for rock band Fall Out Boy, told MTV News in an e-mail: "There is a witch hunt for people to be pregnant whenever they get engaged in Hollywood ... I mean we're engaged, that's true, and happy about it."
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Posted by worlddown on Tuesday, April 15 @ 14:29:05 MST (71 reads)
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Chris Rock testifies in Hollywood wiretap case |
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| LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Comedian Chris Rock testified on Friday that he hired Hollywood's so-called private eye to the stars to find incriminating information about a Hungarian model who filed a paternity suit against him. Rock, the star of the 2003 movie "Head of State" and co-creator of the TV show "Everybody Hates Chris," looked nervous during his 20-minute appearance at the trial of private investigator Anthony Pellicano, who is charged with bribery and wiretapping on behalf of dozens of Hollywood celebrities and movie executives. Rock, 43, told the federal court jury in Los Angeles that he hired Pellicano in 1999 to investigate model Monika Zsibrita because he felt he was being shaken down when Zsibrita accused him of fathering her child after a one night stand at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
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Posted by worlddown on Friday, April 04 @ 22:12:15 MST (67 reads)
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Gates sees next Windows "sometime" in next year |
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| MIAMI (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp.co-founder Bill Gates said on Friday he expected the new version of Windows operating software, code-named Windows 7, to be released "sometime in the next year or so." The software giant has been aiming to issue more regular updates of the operating system software that powers the majority of the world's personal computers. Nevertheless, Gates' comments suggested that a successor to the Vista program might be released sooner than was generally expected. Microsoft has said it expected to release a new version of Windows approximately 3 years after the introduction of Vista in January 2007.
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Posted by worlddown on Friday, April 04 @ 22:10:41 MST (56 reads)
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Britney Spears gives CBS sitcom a ratings boost |
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| LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - A guest appearance by Britney Spears gave the CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother" its highest viewership of the season on Monday, and assures the modest performer will be renewed for a fourth season in the fall. "Mother" pulled in about 10.6 million viewers, a huge spike from its season-to-date average of 7.8 million, according to Nielsen Media Research. Critics were relatively impressed. "Spears proved she can act every bit as well as she can sing," wrote the New York Daily News. "Brit looked slim, (OK she was behind a desk), trim and gorgeous," wrote the New York Post.
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Posted by worlddown on Tuesday, March 25 @ 23:47:44 MST (194 reads)
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Ryan Phillippe sheds pretty boy image |
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| LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Ryan Phillippe gained Hollywood fame and won fans with his piercing blue eyes and good looks in the 1990s, but the actor says he has never been interested in being just another pretty face in the movies. So in recent years Phillippe, 33, has focused on gritty roles in films whose stories are rooted in real-life, such as Iraq war tale "Stop-Loss" which lands in theaters on Friday. "Stop-Loss," written and directed by Kimberly Peirce, stars Phillippe as a soldier returning from war overseas and follows his recent dramatic turns in Clint Eastwood's World War II tale "Flags of Our Fathers" and best film Oscar winner "Crash," about race relations.
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Posted by worlddown on Tuesday, March 25 @ 23:47:01 MST (71 reads)
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Yahoo supports Google social network applications |
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| SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo said on Tuesday it supports a program by archrival Google to develop applications for social networks and will help create a joint foundation to keep it alive. Google launched its OpenSocial network in November to lure developers already creating popular Web applications on social networks like Facebook. Many social networks, including News Corp-owned MySpace, Friendster and hi5, support OpenSocial, a set of technological specifications that lets software developers build applications such as games and photo shows that can run on any social network.
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Posted by worlddown on Tuesday, March 25 @ 23:45:47 MST (44 reads)
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Putting customers to work, Nokia takes on the Web |
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| HELSINKI (Reuters) - A popular video on Youtube shows a 'concept phone' that could literally bend to fit your wrist. Called Nokia Morph, it's also an image of how the world's largest mobile phone maker wants to change. As the Internet goes mobile and companies like Apple and Google find cool ways to embrace the trend, the mobile market leader is rewriting its product development rulebook. Instead of working in secrecy and isolation, it wants to start sharing. "For Nokia this is probably the biggest throw of the dice since they entered the cellphone business," said Ben Wood, research director at CCS Insight, who has followed the Finnish firm since 1994.
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Posted by worlddown on Tuesday, March 18 @ 19:51:33 MST (90 reads)
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Jodie Foster stalker arrested after bomb threats |
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| BOSTON (Reuters) - A man who sent Oscar-winning actress Jodie Foster threatening letters for several years was arrested on Tuesday on charges of mailing a bomb threat to a Los Angeles airport. Michael Smegal, 42, of Holliston, Massachusetts, was charged in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts with mailing a threatening letter to Van Nuys Airport in early December. The letter was one of more than 100 nearly identical letters with references to Foster mailed to celebrities, business executives, airports and other locations around Los Angeles from September 2007 to January 2008, an affidavit said.
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Posted by worlddown on Wednesday, March 12 @ 15:30:04 MST (102 reads)
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YouTube lets developers build their own YouTubes |
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| SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - YouTube, Google Inc's popular video sharing site, is giving away tools that let Web developers tap the underlying database functions of YouTube, in effect allowing users to build their own YouTubes. The Silicon Valley-based video-sharing site said on Wednesday that it is providing wholesale access to YouTube's extensive video library, global audience, and the underlying video hosting and streaming network that powers YouTube. The move goes significantly beyond the current access to YouTube videos in which any Web user can copy and embed selected videos onto their own Web pages.
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Posted by worlddown on Wednesday, March 12 @ 15:28:44 MST (94 reads)
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